Automation Engineer Jobs in London

Automation Engineer
England > London

The median Automation Engineer salary in London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 468 659
Rank change year-on-year -14 +191 -235
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 27 135 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.46% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 22 112 190
10th Percentile - £46,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £24,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,813 £85,938
90th Percentile £160,750 £107,700 £97,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Automation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Automation Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Automation Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Automation Engineer in London

Automation Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +26 3 £62,500 +13.64% 2
South London -8 3 £24,000 -40.00%
Automation Engineer
England

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Automation Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (51.85%) Java
2 13 (48.15%) Test Automation
3 10 (37.04%) AWS
3 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
3 10 (37.04%) DevOps
3 10 (37.04%) Terraform
4 9 (33.33%) Azure
4 9 (33.33%) Agile
4 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.93%) Docker
6 7 (25.93%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (25.93%) Linux
6 7 (25.93%) Python
7 6 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 6 (22.22%) C#
7 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
7 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
8 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
8 5 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (18.52%) YouTube
8 5 (18.52%) GCP
8 5 (18.52%) Coaching
8 5 (18.52%) QA Automation
8 5 (18.52%) Innovative Thinking
8 5 (18.52%) Cisco
8 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
8 5 (18.52%) QA

Automation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (18.52%) GCP
4 3 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 2 (7.41%) Route 53
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 3 (11.11%) DTrace
2 3 (11.11%) GDB
2 3 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Postman
3 2 (7.41%) Cucumber
3 2 (7.41%) Cypress.io
3 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 2 (7.41%) JUnit
3 2 (7.41%) Selenium
3 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (7.41%) Subversion
4 1 (3.70%) Appium
4 1 (3.70%) JMeter
4 1 (3.70%) Mockito
4 1 (3.70%) REST Assured
4 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (18.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) OpenCV
1 1 (3.70%) Playwright
1 1 (3.70%) React
1 1 (3.70%) REST
1 1 (3.70%) Spring
1 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.70%) Web Services
1 1 (3.70%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 3 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Test Automation
2 10 (37.04%) DevOps
2 10 (37.04%) Mentoring
3 9 (33.33%) Agile
3 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) Coaching
6 5 (18.52%) Innovative Thinking
6 5 (18.52%) QA Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 3 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (11.11%) Quantitative Trading
8 3 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Java
2 7 (25.93%) Python
3 6 (22.22%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) C
4 3 (11.11%) OCaml
4 3 (11.11%) Perl
4 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 3 (11.11%) SystemTap
5 1 (3.70%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) CCNP
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 3 (11.11%) Ansible
3 3 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 3 (11.11%) Puppet
3 3 (11.11%) Salt
4 2 (7.41%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Cisco
1 5 (18.52%) YouTube
2 2 (7.41%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.70%) Splunk